Reading people talk about
Unix
sucks; StarOffice to be free send my emotions
quite high. Tey try to make Unix something different.
The idea behind Unix are small, specialized
Programms which integrate well. If your code is longer
than a few thousand lines, throw it away. If you can't
communicate via pipes, make your data structures
more simple.
Complex things aren't build by constructing them
complex but by integrating a lot of simple things
togethte something more complex. Thats how nature
works and thats how Unix works. If you want something
different, use something different.
gnarf.

ddns
was proceeding a bit the last days. I have declared it
now alpha2 and build rpms and a
FreeBSD Port of it. It was interesting to learn the
different packaging systems end even more interesting
to find out that a static linux binary is about 5 larger than
the same on FreeBSD. I'll try to get an account on an
AXP machine to test if my code is 64 bit clean.

The client of ddnsd is now in a state to be usable by
end-users (if they are Unix hackers ;-). I wanted to build
a GUI client for my Mac and decided to go
cross-plattform. My first try was Python but tkinter looks
ugly and there was no rijndael Implementation in
python and I wasn't in the mode to write one on my
own.
Next try: java. It sucks. Why have they mix up
programming language, library and virtual machine
under the same name? But I was able to mock up a
prototype in just a few hours. Rijndael is in cryptix so there
should be a java-client for ddns at the end of this
summer.

Then there will be the real thing (tm): a Unix console
version and there will be a java version for the GUI
people on all platforms.

The last few days I didn't manage to spend much time
learning - I got into hack mode (damm) and hacked the
ddns packet into a usable state. It has still a Long
TODO-list, but at least the dynamic dns client is in a
state that it can be used by other people.

Now I can find peace of mind and get some sleep - and
the back to learning fot the final examinations.